This position is located in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, in the Facility Management Division.

Duties

Serves as Park Landscape Architect and is park liaison with park partners such as Federal Highway Administration and Denver Service Center. Serves as a project manager for various types of facility projects, including roads, bridges, buildings, campgrounds, and landscapes. Provides professional landscape architectural advice and guidance on planning, designing, constructing new or existing facilities. Provide creative solutions to balance cultural and natural resource compliance, visitor use, and politically sensitive issues. Prepares planning, design, cost estimates, and construction documents for projects.

Requirements

Qualifications

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-07/19/2023-unless otherwise stated in this vacancy announcement. Credit will be given for all appropriate qualifying experience. To receive credit for experience, your resume MUST clearly indicate the nature of the duties and responsibilities for each position, starting and ending dates of employment (month/year), and the resume must reflect full and/or part-time or total number of hours worked (i.e., work 40+ hours a week, rather than indicating full-time). If part-time, the hours must be annotated to be able to pro-rate the amount of qualified specialized experience. Basic Educational Requirements for a GS 0807 Landscape Architect: Possess a bachelors or higher degree in landscape architecture or landscape design. NOTE: Successful completion of a 5-year program of study of at least 160 hours to a bachelor's degree architecture in an accredited college or university. You must submit copies of your college transcripts for this position. OR I have a combination of education and experience. For each year short of graduation, I have had 1 year of experience under professional leadership and guidance of such character and diversity as to be a satisfactory substitute for the required education. This experience must have included original landscape design. You must submit copies of your college transcripts for this position. - AND - To qualify for this position at the GS-12 grade level, you must possess at least the following minimum qualifications by close of the announcement: EXPERIENCE: I have one (1) year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-11 level in the Federal service that equips you with the particular specialized experience needed to successfully perform the duties of this position. At least one full year of specialized experience comparable in scope and responsibility to the GS-11 grade level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors).Examples of specialized experience include, but are not limited to reviewing, planning, and developing designs for construction, repair, or maintenance projects; preparing contract design and construction packages; development, execution, and project management of multiple projects; knowledge of project management principles and concepts; applying the technical principles, practices, procedures of project development; managing contractors or similar. You must include hours per week worked. There is no substitution of education for experience at the grade level(s) of this announcement. Volunteer Experience: Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Current surplus and current or former displaced Federal individuals who have special priority selection rights under the Agency Career Transition Assistance Program (CTAP) or the Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP) must be well qualified for the position to receive consideration for special priority selection. Well qualified means that the applicant meets the following: OPM qualification standards for the position; all selective placement factors, where applicable; special qualifying conditions that OPM has approved for the position, where applicable; is physically qualified with reasonable accommodation, where appropriate to satisfactorily perform the duties of the position upon entry; and is rated by the organization at least at the well qualified level on all competencies. Federal employees seeking CTAP/ICTAP eligibility must submit proof that they meet the requirements of 5 CFR 330.605(2) for CTAP and 5 CFR 330.704 for ICTAP. This includes a copy of the agency notice, a copy of their most recent Performance Rating, and a copy of their most recent SF-50 noting current position, grade level, and duty location. Please annotate your application to reflect that you are applying as a CTAP/ICTAP eligible. If you are selected for Federal employment, you will be required to fill out a Declaration of Federal Employment, OF-306, prior to being appointed to determine your suitability for Federal employment and to authorize a background investigation. Failing to answer all questions truthfully and completely or providing false statements on your application may be grounds for not hiring you, or for firing you after you begin work. Also, you may be punished by fine or imprisonment (U.S. Code, Title 18, section 1001).

Education

To meet the basic requirement based on education, you must submit a legible copy of transcripts from an accredited institution with your name, school name, credit hours, course level, major(s), and grade-point average or class ranking. Transcripts do not need to be official, but if you are selected for this position and you used your education to qualify, you must provide official transcripts before you begin work.

If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet qualification requirements, you must show that your education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university.

Contacts

• Address Great Smoky Mountains National Park DO NOT SEND MAIL TO THIS ADDRESS 107 Park Headquarters Road Gatlinburg, TN 37738 US
• Name: Kelley Kennec
• Phone: 000-000-0000
• Email: [email protected]